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Just where in New York Noel Hill's CD was recorded is the $64 question. By Daniel Neely Noel Hill is one of the true modern legends in Irish music....

For songwriter Niall McGuigan, “Awareness” is an emotional and cultural “map.” By Colleen Taylor It is a truth universally acknowledged that music ...

Inis Lar, Aran Islands. PHOTO BY JOE O'BYRNE By Orla O’Sullivan Joe O’Byrne was raised in Balbriggan, a coastal village north of Dublin City, but a...

Tom Phelan on a recent visit to his hometown of Mountmellick, Co. Laois. PHOTO: PATRICIA PHELAN A Father's Day remembrance by Tom Phelan On a summe...

Colm Meaney and Timothy Spall in a scene from “The Journey.” IFC FILMS By Michael Gray The peace process in Northern Ireland is now two decades old...

Dr. Ellen Rowley. Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott In this week of Bloomsday, one can detect Joycean undertones in scholar Ellen Rowley’s st...

GREGORY21 | DREAMSMTIME.COM IRELAND HOPPING / By Margaret M. Johnson In additional to celebrating “Flag Day” today, it’s also “National Strawberry ...

Two Cities’ Mags Garvey and Mark Ferguson are equal parts Dublin and London, but Berlin makes them a tale of three cities. By Colleen Taylor The li...

Capturing the summer-school experience on film. PHOTOS BY RACHAEL KEALY By Geoffrey Cobb As a somewhat successful writer, I get asked this difficul...

Some of the actors in rehearsal. By Orla O’Sullivan Beck Lee, perhaps best known to readers as the publicist for Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, has h...

Artisan Row’s “Wild Winds” is CD of contemporary music with a cosmopolitan flair. By Daniel Neely There are many bands out there today that stake t...

By Daniel Neely In the player this week is “This Day Too: Music From Irish America,” a new recording from the Winches, Terence, Jesse, and Michael,...